Georgi Tovstonogov

Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1989)

The events take place in New York in the apartment of the mother of the owner of a seafood restaurant, Barney Cashman. The man is already over 40. One fine day he thinks that he has lived a gray, boring life: he has never cheated on his wife, never got int ...

The Story of a Horse (1989)

Based on Leo Tolstoy's story "Holstomer" staged by the Leningrad State Academic Bolshoi Drama Theater named after M. Gorky. ...

Energetic People (1989)

The heroes of Shukshin's play are indeed energetic people in the full sense of the word. Jacks of all trades, quick-witted and dishonest, grabbers and thieves, who can be called businessmen of the era of socialism, for whom there was no use for their pract ...

Uncle Vanya (1987)

A television film based on the famous production by the Bolshoi Drama Theater is yet another interpretation of Chekhov's "boring story" — about the life of an intelligent and conscientious Russian man, Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky, "lost" in the rural backwa ...

The Pickwick Club (1986)

A middle-aged gentleman, yet utterly naive, sums up his life experience gained over years of traveling around good old England. The comical and absurd situations in which he and his friends constantly find themselves turn the play into a rare and truly tim ...

Khanuma (1978)

A classical romantic comedy set in Tbilisi, Georgia in the beginning of XX century. ...

Balalaykin and K (1973)

The performance of the Sovremennik Theater directed by G. A. Tovstonogov. ...

The Philistines (1971)

Television performance, tragicomedy based on the play of the same name by M. Gorky by the Leningrad BDT named after M. Gorky (first staged in 1966). ...

The Truth! Nothing But the Truth! (1969)

About the trial of the October Revolution, which was organized in 1919 by the US Senate. ...

On the Road of Immortality (1957)

A.P. Chekhov's Scenes (1973)

A filmed stage performance by the Bolshoi Drama Theatre. Three miniatures based on short stories by A.P. Chekhov: The Darling Dog, The Wrongdoer, The Groom and the Papa, exploring the absurdity of existence. In each miniature, one of the characters inevita ...

The Truth! Nothing But the Truth! (1969)

About the trial of the October Revolution, which was organized in 1919 by the US Senate. ...